Sunday, June 05, 2022

Something to take your mind off gas prices?-----Scientists accidentally create super-vicious HAMSTERS in lab after gene editing test goes wrong | Daily Mail Online

Scientists accidentally create super-vicious HAMSTERS in lab after gene editing test goes wrong | Daily Mail Online
"Scientists accidentally create super-vicious HAMSTERS in a lab after gene editing experiment goes wrong and makes aggressive rodents chase, bite and pin each other down.
  • Gene editing lab test inadvertently makes horde of rage-fuelled hamsters
  • Scientists removed key hormone in the hope it would boost animals' cooperation
  • But it turned them wild, prompting chasing, biting and pinning among hamsters
  • 'We [thought] it would reduce aggression. But the opposite happened': test chief
  • 'We don't understand this system as well as we thought we did', Professor added 

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